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Even arsenic the household of Venu, the 48-year-old from Kollam who died astatine Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College Hospital connected Wednesday (November 7, 2025), portion undergoing attraction for bosom attack, maintained that the diligent did not person owed attraction and attraction astatine the hospital, the MCH authorities reiterated that determination were ne'er immoderate lapses successful the attraction fixed to the patient.
“The diligent was admitted arsenic soon arsenic helium got present and helium was fixed the champion of attraction that could beryllium fixed to a bosom onslaught patient. Every attraction arsenic per the established attraction protocol was fixed to him. He was not a campaigner for superior angioplasty due to the fact that implicit 30 hours had elapsed aft helium suffered the bosom onslaught and hence helium was connected aesculapian absorption and helium was unchangeable till Wednesday evening,” the Professor and Head of Cardiology, Mathew Iype, told mediapersons present connected Friday.
“The diligent was unchangeable aft the bosom onslaught helium had suffered, his humor unit and bosom bushed were stable. But bosom nonaccomplishment is simply a known complication pursuing bosom attacks and his information abruptly worsened connected Wednesday evening and helium was shifted to the ICU,” Dr. Iype said.
However, these explanations bash not look to person dispelled the family’s condemnation that Venu could person been saved if exigency angiography, followed by angioplasty had been done connected time.
Lack of communication
This does rise the question whether the attraction details of the diligent — the information that Venu was not a campaigner for superior angioplasty owed to respective reasons — was conveyed decently to the diligent and his family.
Senior doctors astatine the MCH said that portion they did effort to little the families of patients astir the patient’s information and the attraction process, it was becoming progressively intolerable successful a infirmary which was wholly bogged down by overcrowding arsenic good arsenic an acute shortage of unit astatine each levels.
“The doctors are managing truthful galore patients astatine a clip that they conscionable whitethorn not person clip to walk clip counselling the patients’ families. We person an acute shortage of nursing unit successful wards and we bash not person immoderate attraction coordinators oregon diligent counsellors oregon aesculapian societal workers arsenic 1 mightiness find successful backstage assemblage hospitals to exclusively woody with patients’ families,” a elder doc said.
“It is besides existent that galore of the young doctors connected work oregon residents taking rounds person nary thought however to speech and explicate medicine successful layman’s presumption to patients oregon their families,” helium added.
Overflowing wards
MCH and SAT unneurotic person implicit 3,000 beds but astatine immoderate fixed clip determination are hundreds of inpatients who person to beryllium accommodated connected the floor. None tin beryllium turned distant due to the fact that they each necessitate superior care.
“Our wards are overflowing arsenic each lawsuit of aesculapian exigency oregon patients requiring captious attraction extremity up successful the MCH from hospitals successful the periphery. Though each districts person Cath labs, astir of these bash not person technicians oregon cardiologists to service circular the clock. The Kollam Medical College has conscionable 1 cardiologist and contempt our champion attempts, we could not get anyone to articulation there,” a elder MCH functionary present said.
The aesculapian acquisition service, erstwhile considered the astir elite and astir sought-after vocation option, is nary longer charismatic to young doctors. The enactment unit is immense, prime of beingness is poor, inadequate monetary compensation and brickbats galore, helium pointed out.
